Individual acts of courage and humanity enabled beacons of hope to flicker throughout this period of darkness.
HELENA RUCZKAN saved her daughter during the war and won the righteous amung the nations award.
GEORGE F. DUCKWITZ risked everything to assist the Danish Jews in escaping to Sweden.
GENIA PAJAK a Polish women who had 3 children and earned a living smuggling food into the Bedzen ghetto in Poland. She even became friends with a Jew and was asked by her to hide her cousin, Tamara. She accepted and and hid her for the rst of the war.
JOSEPH SCHLIEFSTIEN A four year old boy who survived the horrors of the KZ camp, hidden from the Nazis until Liberation.
ANTON SCHMID Disobeyed his superior officers and saved 250 Jews, who were all Men/Women/Children.
RAOUL WALENBERG He stopped the massacre of 60 thousand Jews and saved their lives as well.
ANDRE TROCME A preist who spoke out against the Nazis and their brutality towards the Jews.
VLADKA MEED She was an official in the January resistence and rescued Jews from the Warsaw ghetto. She even smuggled weapons for them.